PhD / Scientific publication: discover, manage & disseminate

The course will introduce you to the information process:
retrieval, management and dissemination of scientific publications. The focus will be on two sources of information: literature sources and research data.
 
The following topics will be discussed in the course:
•    Process of literature and research data search: functionalities of databases, search preparation, search methods, search strategies
•    Elements of research data management: life cycle, data management plans, policy, guidelines, preservation and reusability of data
•    Citation, copyright, license agreement, plagiarism and Creative Commons
•    Manage your research data and literature sources with appropriate tools
•    Measure your impact: traditional and alternative approaches to measure a scholar’s impact
•    Open Access, repositories, Open Access publishers, guidelines, policies, mandates and international movements. Predatory publishing
•    Publishing contracts, author rights and how to retain and practice them
•    Research data publication and discovery and open science
•    Self-presentation, visibility and impact in the scientific community with social media

With the knowledge acquired in this course participants are able to:

•    Define and implement their information need
•    Make a justified choice of appropriate information sources
•    Construct and implement effective search strategies
•    Organise and store information using appropriate methods and share information with others
•    Legally obtain, cite and disseminate all kinds of information
•    Describe methods to measure the impact of a scientist and form an opinion about the research performance evaluation
•    Understand dissemination of scientific publications, problems in the current publication system and ways to find journals for publication
•    Know the various roads to Open Access and how to publish with Open Access
•    Apply concepts of research data management to improve research efficiency and reusability

Anna C. Véron, Dr. sc. nat., University of Zurich and Gary Seitz, M.Sc. in Geography, University of Zurich

PhD candidates in the natural, medical and social sciences.

1 ECTS (has to be recognized by your faculty)

Conditions of participation:

• A no-show will lead to a blocked account and the cancellation of all other booked GRC courses.   
• You may only register for two courses per semester.

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